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ITD · 10-19-2004, 05:49 PM

I was in a local hardware store a few years ago registering a small sailboat. One of the other employees walked by complaining about the "Massholes" tying up traffic outside the store. The man doing my registration showed the employee my Mass. license with a chuckle and a disapproving headshake and we all laughed about the comment.

All it takes is a few, with bad attitudes, give the many that come to the Lake a bad reputation. I come from Mass. to the lake and I appreciate the warm grateful reception I get when I spend money or even when I don't spend money. Sure there are a few who don't like me because I'm from Mass., but so what? I don't go out of my way to antagonize them.

Last I saw NH has one of the highest median salary numbers in the country and unemployment below 3.5%. Pretty good numbers.

When I see the argument -

"Well guess what you are not a kid anymore! Since then times have changed! Boats became more powerful! People started to make more money! More people go to winnipesaukee! If you dont like it, im sure there is plenty of those "more people" to fill your 100' on the lake! and hey maybe they'll even have a big offshore muscle machine to really wake up the shoreline!"

- I think of Daytona Beach, where I went for Spring Break when I was in college. Many kids had the same attitude until the locals got sick of it and enacted legislation that ended Spring Break in Daytona.

You see, lack of manners, sooner or later will get dealt with. People with loud boats have bad manners. Period.

10-19-2004, 05:49 PM	#18
ITD Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Moultonboro, NH Posts: 2,925 Thanks: 476 Thanked 691 Times in 387 Posts	Unlurking......... I was in a local hardware store a few years ago registering a small sailboat. One of the other employees walked by complaining about the "Massholes" tying up traffic outside the store. The man doing my registration showed the employee my Mass. license with a chuckle and a disapproving headshake and we all laughed about the comment. All it takes is a few, with bad attitudes, give the many that come to the Lake a bad reputation. I come from Mass. to the lake and I appreciate the warm grateful reception I get when I spend money or even when I don't spend money. Sure there are a few who don't like me because I'm from Mass., but so what? I don't go out of my way to antagonize them. Last I saw NH has one of the highest median salary numbers in the country and unemployment below 3.5%. Pretty good numbers. When I see the argument - "Well guess what you are not a kid anymore! Since then times have changed! Boats became more powerful! People started to make more money! More people go to winnipesaukee! If you dont like it, im sure there is plenty of those "more people" to fill your 100' on the lake! and hey maybe they'll even have a big offshore muscle machine to really wake up the shoreline!" - I think of Daytona Beach, where I went for Spring Break when I was in college. Many kids had the same attitude until the locals got sick of it and enacted legislation that ended Spring Break in Daytona. You see, lack of manners, sooner or later will get dealt with. People with loud boats have bad manners. Period.